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[Dave Chance]

http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/special/2012/06/182_113230.html

According to the U.S. Attorney General in 2006, South Koreans accounted the highest population (24 percent) of sex trafficking victims in the U.S., followed by Thailand, Peru, Mexico and El Salvador.

[ajosshi]

Video: http://ajosshi.com/?p=1272

[Dave Chance]

http://view.koreaherald.com/kh/view.php?ud=20120621001188&cpv=0

A Korean female victim sent an urgent text message for help to an anti-trafficking group. The group revealed sex trafficing stories of the victim and others at a press conference in Tokyo Wednesday.

The unnamed victim was malnourished and suffering from abdominal inflammation when she sent the distressed message to Polaris Project Japan�s hotline.

The woman, who is in her twenties, had been forced into prostitution after she had arrived in Japan with false hopes of making money as a bar hostess to pay off her debt.

She had gotten the idea from her female employer at a Seoul bar, who had recommended that she move to Japan to quickly make money.

But her nightmares began when she met the broker in Tokyo. She was taken to an apartment in the Ueno district, where she was under constant monitoring with surveillance cameras in her room and corridor. The broker took away her passport. All of the money she made working as a prostitute went to the pimp.

[Paddycakes]

I sometimes wonder about these "victims" of trafficking.

I suspect 99 percent of them know full well what they're getting into.

A guy offers you big bucks to "sing in a bar" in Japan... c'mon, are people really that naive.

I suspect the vast majority know they're going to be involved in prostitution... they probably just don't expect to be treated as bad as they do.

Kinda like newbie ESL teachers in a way...

[yodanole]

I don't know...somebody once offered me "big money" to teach in Korea...

Big money:

http://blogs.wabash.edu/www2images/Confederate%20money%20Campbell%2050%20cents%20-%201864.jpg